Button-setting machine



(No Model.)

J. H. VINTON. BUTTON SETTING MACHINE. N0.401,393. Patented Apr. 16, 1889.

NVENTUR JMEVW FM Wa UNITED STATES PATENT JOHN H. VINTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE PENIN- SULAR NOVELTY COMPANY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

BUTTON-SETTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 401,393, dated April 16, 1889. Application filed January 17, i888. Serial No. 261,041. (No model.)

To 0535 whom it may Concern: vertical section of the driver, carrier, and race- Be it known that 1, JOHN H. VINTON, of Bosway and a portion of the main frame-work in ton, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, which it is mounted.

have invented an Improvement-in Button-Set- The main frame-work comprises the base ting Machines, of which the following descrip- A and the overhanging arm A. The driver 5 5 tion, in connection with the accompanying (0, attached rigidly to the framework, the

drawings, is a specification, like letters on the springcontrolled yielding carrier b, and the drawings representing like parts. raceway 0, attached to the bar a, sliding in In an application, Serial No. 228,309, filed by the main frame simultaneously with the bar Edward ().Ely, February 21,1887,abutton-setb of the carrier 1), are all as in the said appli- 6o ting instrument is shown containing a driver cation referred to. The anvil e is fixed in a and a movable or yielding carrier and raceway, slot in the anvil-block e, which enters a socket the said carrier being arranged to present the in the base portion of the main frame and lies fastening and attached button directly bein a straight line with relation to the driver,

5 neath the driver, and also a movable anvil so that it maybe moved toward the driver in which is adapted to lift or raise the carrier to a straight line in contradistinction to moving cause the driver to force the fastening and attoward the driver in the arc of a circle. tached button from the said carrier and to set The lever e is loosely jointed or connected the fastening. In the said application the with the lower end of the anvil-block c, and

20 anvil was attached to or formed as a part of the lower end of the said lever e is loosely the lower movable jaw, and its movement was jointed or connected with a short lever or arm, in the arc of acircle toward the driver about 6, fixed to the shaft e", having its hearings in the'pivot of the jaw as a center. the base of the main frame, said levers e and This invention has for its object to improve a forming toggle-levers, by which the anvil- 2 5 the construction of the button-setting machine block is raised.

shown in the said application, making a very The shaft e as herein shown, has rigidly much more powerful and better operating maattached to it a hand-lever, d, which, as repchine. resented, is extended from the front of the In accordance with this invention the driver, machine rearwardly and has an upwardly- 3 the yielding carrier, and raceway are substanturned end, d. The said bent lever is emtially the same as in the said application, and ployed to rock the shaft 6, it being moved the anvil is designed to bemoved in a straight from the full to the dotted line position, Fig. line toward the driver, instead of in the are 1, to effect said result, and when said shaft 6 of a circle. is rocked the lever or arm 6 will be raised or 35 The anvil-blockisinoved, preferably, by togmade to occupy a very nearly vertical posigle-jointed levers, which are in turn moved tion to raise the lever 6 or, in other words,

by a bent hand-lever. The driver and anvilto cause the toggle-levers e c to occupy apoblock are arranged at a rearward inclination sition substantially in line with each other, from the operator, and the bent hand-lever is thereby forcing the anvil-block e upward to 4 designed to be moved in the are of a circle tostrike the anvil c, to cause the driver to force 0 ward the operator, which arrangement prefrom the carrier the fastening and attached sents the entire button-setting device to the button and to set the fastening,

operator in a much more convenient manner By moving the anvil-block in substantially for use than in any machine heretofore known a straight line toward the driver the mate- 45 to me. rial will be clamped between the carrier and Figure 1 shows in side elevation a buttonanvil and the button-fastening set without setting machine embodying this invention, any movement of the anvil across the face of the main framework being broken away to the carrier. expose the toggle-jointed levers employed to The anvil-block and remaining cooperative 5 move the anvil-block and anvil; and Fig. 2, a parts of the button-setting devices are ar- 10o I do not herein desire to limit myself to the precise construction shown for moving the said anvil-block, nor its combination with any particular form or construction of the other co-operative parts of a button-setting device, as it is obvious that the anvil moving in a straight line is equally efficient and co-opera tive with other forms of button-setting devices.

A detachable raceway or tube, f, is applied to the raceway c, said tube f having pron gs f which bear upon fiat springs f secured to the rear side of the raceway c. The tubes f, being thus connected in a yielding manner, may be moved slightly forward, so that when they are quickly detached they will not be bent at their lower ends.

I claim 1. In a button-setting machine, the rigidlyattached .driver a and yielding carrier b, arranged to automatically present a single fastening having a button attached thereto beneath the driver, combined with the anvil movable in a straight line toward the driver, as set forth.

2. In a button-setting machine, the buttonsetting devices mounted in the face of a stationary frame-work which is inclined rearwardly from the operator, and a substantiallyvertical attached chute, substantially as described.

3. In a'button-setting machine, the buttonsetting devices, combined with a rearwardlyextended hand-lever movable upward in the arc of a circle to effect the upward movement of the movable member of the button-setting devices, substantially as described.

4. In a button-setting machine, the driver and carrier, combined with the anvil movable toward the driver in a straight line, the rearwardly extended toggle jointed levers, and bent hand-lever, the said lever having an upward and forward movement, substantially as described.

5. In a button-setting machine, the raceway and detachable tube, and its yielding connection between the said detachable tube and the raceway, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN H. VINTON.

Witnesses:

BERNICE J. NOYES, J. C. SEARS. 

